Cars That Think

JANUARY 6, 2025

What they got wrong was assuming that all of those vehicles would run on battery power alone, with gasoline-electric hybrid technology bound for the technological scrap heap. BMW demonstrated EREV tech beginning in 2013 with its pint-size i3 REx , which used a tiny motorcycle engine to generate electricity.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Weve kept the summary table below generally up-to-date for passenger PHEVs, but not for BEVs, motorcycles or larger vehicles like buses and trucks. Detroit News ).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Toyota Prius modders have already been adding larger batteries so the vehicle can run on battery power. Instead of investing in our future we dumped money on trying to save the past. Way to go morons. P.S. The Volt is not revolutionary.

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